PM says no agreement with Germany on return of asylum seekers

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has denied that the Czech Republic is among
the fourteen European Union countries which reportedly agreed to sign deals
with Germany to take back asylum seekers who had previously registered
elsewhere.

Babiš said during a visit to France on Saturday that he had not discussed
the issue with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the EU summit earlier
this week and would, in any case, never consent to an agreement that would
mean accepting any number of illegal refugees.

According to the DPA and Reuters news agencies, Hungary, Poland and the
Czech Republic, all countries which have opposed any scheme to share-out
asylum seekers across the continent, have said they are open to signing
such an agreement with Germany.

Under the EU’s Dublin convention asylum seekers must lodge their requests
in the first EU country they set foot in.